Do you seriously believe Hitler was a Christian?

Question

A true one, anyway?

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To those that don't believe the question, this does not apply
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Guys, come on. You've got to be kidding.

If you could picture Jesus doing the things that Hitler did, you've got to be insane. Seriously.

Just because Hitler called himself a Christian (if he even DID) doesn't make him a Christian.

Hitler burned Bibles. He destroyed Churches and Synagogues. He changed the way people got married! He denounced pastors and put the SS in their place.

A Christian is called to be like Jesus.

If you think Hitler's actions were similar to Jesus' in anyway, you're dead wrong.

That is common sense.

Yoda,

Hitler was a liar.

He was a diagnosed psychopath.

Answer 1

Hitler believed himself to be christian...

How does that differ from you believing yourself to be christian?

The christian who truly follows christ is rare.

Answer 2

Let's See. Yes Hitler could have been a Christian. Here are some facts of some other great Christians and their treatment of the Jews.

The Crusades-- In December 1098, the capture of the Arab town of Ma'arrat al-Numan took place, and with it the first known incident of cannibalism by the crusaders.

The First Crusade ignited a long tradition of organized violence against Jews in European culture. While anti-Semitism had existed in Europe for centuries, the First Crusade marks the first mass organized violence against Jewish communities. In Germany, certain leaders understood this war against the infidels to be applicable not only to the Muslims in the Holy Land, but even against Jews within their own lands. Setting off in the early summer of 1096, a German army of around 10,000 soldiers led by Gottschalk, Volkmar, and Emicho, proceeded northward through the Rhine valley, in the opposite direction of Jerusalem, and began a series of pogroms which some historians call "the first Holocaust".

Hitler just continued the work that the Crusaders who went to war in the name of Jesus had started 1000 years earlier

Answer 3

Yes, he simply had a slightly different interpretation than some do.

A quote, one of many expressing his christian beliefs.

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.

-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)

Answer 4

First off - is this sarcasm?

Is it a big problem, people bringing up Hitler's alleged Christianity? You talk like it's been keeping you up nights.

I think it's pretty obvious that Naziism was heading in the direction of a fully-fledged "religion" in its own right. It had all the trappings: the rituals, the legends, the gestures, the symbols, the uniforms, etc. "Christianity" insofar as it appeared in this scheme was a vastly modified Christianity - but so what? Seriously, I can't understand what the point is in comparing Hitler unfavorably to Jesus. It's as if I said "You know, Idi Amin...you compare him with the Buddha, and he comes off kind of bad."

Answer 5

* Hitler was not a christian, but neither are the majority of people who claim to be today, but that is another topic.

Hitler borrowed from many religions and forms of spirituality to try and make his actions seem right. He also used any means he thought might gain him power over the whole world. He studied the occult, but not for good for the wrong reasons. He saw the occult as something mystical and magickal, which it can be, but the occult is neither good or bad.

Black magick harms the practitioner more than those it is directed at. Eventually the person who uses negative magick will have their downfall as we all know how Hitler fell.*

Answer 6

He was one of many people who call themselves christians but do not follow the teachings of christ.

And various quotations can point to whether or not he considered himself a christian. The post above shows one side; here's another Hitler quote:


"In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison.

"Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross."

Answer 7

Makes you wonder what you have to do to NOT be a Christian! Hitler denied Christianity more ardently than most atheists. If Hitler was a Christian, so is Richard Dawkins.

Here are just a few things that Hitler had to say about Christianity:

"The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity. Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things. Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity. Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity. And that's why someday its structure will collapse. The only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little. The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity. Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery. There is something very unhealthy about Christianity."

Answer 8

The only requirement to be a Christian is the belief that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah) and therefor the Son of God. Whether or not Hitler was a good (or true) Christian is another story.

Answer 9

Hitler was not a Christian ( Child of GOD Walking in Holiness).
What Jesus did on the Cross coulda' got hitler Saved, but I Seriously doubt that hitler took Jesus up on that Option.

Jesus Provided SALVATION for ANYBODY who will Take Jesus up on it, regardless of what or how many sins you have committed.

That is how much Jesus Loves us Human Beings.

Answer 10

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people is plundered and exploited."

Answer 11

Hitler had a hodge podge of mystical and cult beliefs. The vast majority of his Nazi followers were Christians. And Christians didn't need Hitler to brainwash them into killing Jews. Christians had done the exact same thing with lower technology through out Europe for centuries.

The Vatican refused on numerous occasions to oppose anti-semitic doctrine and policiy within nazism, in a claim of neutrality. The same neutral vatican that didn't protect Jews fought for amnesty for nazi war crominals. The same neutral vatican supported Hitler initally as a last stand ahgainst communism.

Pope Pius the XII, who is up for cannonization, also refused to allow African American soldiers in the vatican, and opposed communism A LOT more strongly then he opposed nazism. There is a history of genocide and hatred in Christian Europe. Deal with it. The nazis were not unique in history...they were a continuation of 1700 years of European policy towars Judaism.